Yellow-bellied Marmot Images

Yellow-bellied Marmot Images, Facts and Information:

Marmota flaviventris

  • Yellow-bellied Marmots are large burrowing rodents with brown fur, yellow bellies, white muzzles and small round ears.
  • Male marmots are larger on average then the females.
  • Yellow-bellied Marmots are found throughout the western U.S including the Rockies, Sierra Nevada and the intermountain west along with some areas in Canada.
  • The preferred habit for Yellow-bellied Marmots includes alpine meadows, steppes, rocky mountain talus slopes, semi-desert areas, pastures and forest edges.
  • Yellow-bellied Marmots eat grasses, leaves, blossoms of herbaceous plants, grains, fruit and occasionally insects.
  • Nicknames for Yellow-bellied Marmots include “rock chuck” and “whistle pig”.
  • Yellow-bellied Marmots have 1 to 5 pups in their litters.
  • Yellow-bellied Marmots live up to 13 to 15 years.

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